PBP Commentary

Coming up we have a light heavyweight MMA rules bout between Vincent El Taco (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class) and James Ard (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class). El Taco's ring entrance music is that housewives' favourite, I wanna be a billionaire. Vincent El Taco has the better chin. Will he look to stand and bang today?

El Taco
vs
Ard

190 cm
21
205 lbs
0 - 0 - 0

183 cm
20
205 lbs
0 - 2 - 0

BJJ Purple Belt
Basic striking
Good in bed

BJJ White Belt
Excellent boxer
Heavy handed

Ladies and gentlemen. This fight is 3 rounds, in the light heavyweight division.
Introducing the fighter to my left, fighting out of the red corner.
With a record of 0 - 0 - 0, fighting out of Tokyo, Vincent El Taco!
And introducing the fighter to my right, fighting out of the blue corner.
With a record of 0 - 2 - 0, fighting out of Tokyo, James Ard!
The judges for this bout are Kenichi Hosakawa, Yukihiro Shimada and Ren Mimura.

The bell rings for round one and we are underway!
El Taco looks to land a combination but Ard avoids it well.

El Taco drops down and drives through with a powerful takedown into guard.
El Taco throwing strikes from guard but Ard blocks nicely.
Ard really doesn't want to stay on the ground with El Taco. If he can't get it back to his feet, it's only a matter of time before he'll be tapping out.
Ard looking to control.
El Taco with a nice head shot there.
Ard preventing the ground and pound from doing any damage.
El Taco lands a couple of digs.
El Taco stops Ard from standing up.
El Taco has been looking to land a fair amount of strikes on the ground. He might be looking to soften his opponent up in order to work for a submission.
El Taco with a couple of shots to the head there. Not particularly brutal.
El Taco missing there with some ground and pound from the guard.
El Taco trying to control the position from guard on top but Ard is wriggling around, looking for whatever he can.
El Taco is in close to Ard's body, working some short punches and elbows.
Both fighters really going for it on the ground here!
El Taco working some ground and pound from guard but it's not doing any damage.
Ard keeping moving, preventing El Taco from controlling successfully.
Ard wants to stand up but El Taco is controlling him.
El Taco trying to control but Ard is working from the bottom.
El Taco won't allow Ard to sweep him here.

That's one minute gone in the round.

It looks like we're going to have a standup here. Neither fighter is doing enough on the ground.
Ard rushes forward with a series of wild hooks but El Taco moves out of range and avoids them all easily.
Ard blocks a jab.
Ard throws a series of punches but El Taco moves out of range.
A chopping leg kick lands by El Taco.
Ard looks gassed!
El Taco throws a body kick that digs right into the meat.
El Taco showing good head movement there, avoiding the strikes from Ard.

El Taco clinches up against the cage.
Ard wants to break free. God knows he wants to breaaaak freeee.

El Taco turns his hips and lands a very nice judo throw into side control!

El Taco has an Americana. Ard didn't react quickly enough there and he's in big trouble now! He tries to squirm out but is forced to tap! El Taco is delighted and gyrates in front of the ring girls. They seem to like the attention - it'll be interesting to see if El Taco hooks up with any of them at the after show party.

Ladies and gentlemen, after 1:52 of round 1, we have a winner by way of Submission (Americana). Vincent El Taco!